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Hong Im Ballenger, a 45-year-old Korean woman, was tragically murdered on September 23, 2002, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She was the manager of a beauty supplies store and was killed as she left work and got into her car. The motive for her killing was robbery. Witnesses reported seeing a young man running from the scene and a dark blue sedan idling nearby.

Authorities later linked her murder to the sniper killing spree led by John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, also known as the "Be ...Read More
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Victim Details

Hong Im Ballenger

Female

Asian

Baton-rouge

LA

2002-09-23

45

Hong

Im Ballenger

11/27/2025